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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Although you'll have to take my word for it on the whole "helmet" part.

Over the years, Wreckerators struggled to make the helmet CCC recognizable...

...with limited success.

Ok, extremely limited.

You know what, just forget the "success" part.

Anyway, one day someone realized that the answer was a specially shaped baking pan.

And a while later, someone else figured maybe that specially shaped baking pan should be helmet-shaped.

And all was well.

UNTIL....

You know how Wreckerators are always using shaped pans for ridiculous and completely unrelated designs? Like upside-down heart grad cakes, and guitar-shaped beer bottles? Yeah? Well, what would you imagine a determined Wreckerator could make out of a football helmet shape? Hmm?

Think carefully, now.

Any ideas?

No?

Give up?

Ok. Keep scrolling.

Jennifer D., Shellie M., Holli M., Chris B., Melissa G., Adam S., & Drew, it's like you could almost reach out and touch it, huh? Really ground-breaking use of technology. Although, I must say, now I feel oddly depressed....

Lol, with an exterior shape so open to interpretation, I have no doubt the helmet cake will be used for countless unrelated designs. I mean, just look at how many different ways the heart-shaped pan is used. I see great things in the future of cake wreckorating.

See now, I would have thought a skull would be the logical use, but Avatar? My jaw literally dropped and my scalp began itching. Sort of a Laurel & Hardy expression (I am only guessing since I have no mirror at my desk.) I do wonder, what do those creatures taste like? Is that a special color? Avatar-blue, perhaps??

I love how even when the wreckerators use a football helmet shaped baking pan to make a football helmet cake, they still manage to wreck it even with flotsam that shows how the wreck is supposed to look. Here's to you, the makers of that Colts helmet cake.

wow, that's has to be the best avatar cake I've ever seen. Oh I know it's still a wreck to the 2nd power, but it's still the best I've ever seen, way better than those cupcakes with the avatar picks in them, or the photo cake (although what better photo to use on a cake than one with blue skinned people...) Sorry I don't have pictures of those, but that what my grocery store had on the dvd release day...

There's nothing new about rotating the same oddly-shaped baking pan to create a variety of designs. Just look at Carvel's ice cream cakes! "Fudgie the Whale"'s tail could become the tassel on Santa Claus's hat every December.

I must say, the last one isn't as bad as an Avatar cake could be. Nonsequitur? Well, yeah. But if someone took a Na'avi, cut it down the center with a semi-sentient knife, and sprinkled some frosting and wrote "Avatar" on its face, then it would probably look like that.

#3 why does the ghost have a round tongue depressor in it's mouth and blue whiskers or claws around it's cloudlike blobby head?

#4: what team is this one supposed to be for? it does look like a UFO--the white icing looks like a beam of light. the yellow dot could be an eye if it were a rolling floor robot.

#5: in restaurants, 86 is the term the staff use when they've run out of something. (ex. "86 the salmon special!") These cakes should be 86ed.

I had such hope for the good looking Colts cake. I didn't even notice the C was wrong until someone pointed out the flotsam. If they didn't include the flotsam (whcih theyshould have skipped anyway), who would have known but true FB fans?

The Avatar cake is totally creepy. but if it's a cookie like the Colts' wreck I'd totally eat it. Those cookies are delish--minus poop-staining blue icing.

Number one wasn't a wreck! It's simply James William Bottomtooth's helmet from college!http://media.photobucket.com/image/bottomtooth%20from%20family%20guy/Aungkhmageddon/m_c3c2646dc092b0a8470bf7dc144a8d57.jpg

I need to know how to bake a cake that is to be covered with not-frosting, but the other stuff . Here in germany it's called fondant. We have a whole different baking tradition but I want to become a wreckie, too! Any suggestions? As creamy as possible, please!

Well then, I've never really seen anything like the 3rd one. A blue nail polished clawed 6-handed snowflake wearing black eyeliner with a football goal thingy iced into it's face with a whistle (or pacifier) shoved into it's mouth. I smell wooonderfuuuulll!!! :D

I haven't seen the movie and really know nothing about it except that there are blue creatures and it has been called "Dances with Wolves . . . in Space" by those who think there are no new ideas in film. I assume not having seen the movie is what's keeping me from understanding why it's a wreck. From an outsider's perspective, it's a fine cake compared to the typical mess featured here. The airbrushing is used to create dimension, the eye has nice detail, and the name is spelled correctly. I find it to be a clever alternate use for the helmet pan. Should I also add I'm pretty high on painkillers right now? Maybe tomorrow my back will feel better and I'll look at it and think it's really awful, but right now it's lovely. Everything is lovely. I love you all. :)

That second "helmet" cake looked like Pac-Man broke his jaw trying to get the ghosts. These cakes are so far from helmets they may as well be called whatchamacallits. Lol honestly did they think we would be fooled?

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well, i'm from europe and football players over here don't wear helmets at all. also, i'm not a sports fan.so, it took me a lot of time to decipher what i was looking at. in fact, i had no clue of any kind - but once i got it, i scrolled back and laughed at the post all they way.

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